Riders Down

di John McEvoy (Autore)

Poisoned Pen Press (Autore)

Tom Weiner (Narratore)

Blackstone Publishing, 2012

No one really notices that a certain horse race might have been fixed until Matt O’Connor, a Chicago-based columnist for a national racing newspaper, gets a call from Moe Kellman, a horse-owning acquaintance. Kellman’s question for Matt: Was the death of ninety-two-year-old Bernard Glockner, Chicago’s oldest active bookie, suicide or murder? Glockner was Kellman’s late uncle, and Kellman, a man familiar with the Chicago mob, wants Matt to check it out. Matt quickly comes to believe that the fate of the bookmaker is tied to a series of races whose outcomes have been manipulated. His quest is aided by horse trainer Maggie Collins and Dave Zimmer, a professional gambler known as the Fount for his reputation as an encyclopedic source of information. Eventually, going as far afield as Las Vegas, they focus their sights on a brilliant sociopath. But why would this psycho have plotted a race-fixing scheme? Spiced with lively language from the world of horse racing, Riders Down offers striking insights into that world and the possibilities of its corruption.

• Autore: John McEvoy, Poisoned Pen Press
• Narratore: Tom Weiner
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 08:04:00
• Anno edizione: 2012
• Editore: Blackstone Publishing
• EAN: 9781481591461

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